Berg Adapting Losers Comic

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Director set for gritty actioner.

By IGN FilmForce

Director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Rundown) is hooking up with Warner Bros. to bring Vertigo's gritty action-espionage adventure The Losers to the big screen. According to today's edition of the Hollywood Reporter, Berg has signed to produce and write the newly-announced adaptation of the critically-hailed book. Variety, in their report on the project, adds that he may also direct.

The Losers, published a few years ago by Vertigo, was written by Andy Diggle and artist Jock. Their work was based on the original 1970s Losers tales which ran in DC Comics' G.I. Combat and Our Fighting Forces which centered around the adventures of a misfit group of American troops during World War II.

The new film will reportedly follow a "highly trained and eclectic Special Ops team that is set up, betrayed and left for dead. They go on a quest to find who sold them out and why, righting wrongs they encounter along the way."